Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting will give you just one more reason to love fall! They are perfectly soft and moist and covered with that sweet, rich cream cheese frosting we all crave. It’s a cookie that everyone will love!
With these cookies you get that unique pumpkin flavor with all those fall spices, then when it’s paired with that luxurious cream cheese flavor magic happens.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda and baking powder
- Salt
- Spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar, brown sugar and powdered sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Canned pumpkin
- Cream cheese
How to Make Pumpkin Cookies
- Preheat oven, line baking sheets.
- Whisk together dry ingredients.
- In a stand mixer cream butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar
- Mix in egg then pumpkin and vanilla.
- Mix in flour mixture.
- Scoop dough out 1 1/2 Tbsp at a time and drop onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake until set. Cool completely then frost.
- For the frosting mix butter and cream cheese until fluffy, then blend in powdered sugar and vanilla.
Pumpkin Cookie Tips
- Use 2 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice in place of the spices here if that’s what you have on had.
- Don’t use canned “pumpkin pie mix.” It has added sweeteners and spices and wouldn’t work here.
- Use parchment paper or baking mats, don’t butter baking sheets. Cookies spread more that way.
- Keep finished cookies cold so the frosting doesn’t soften or melt at a warm room temperature. Let rest briefly at room temperature before serving.
- Store in a single layer so they don’t stick (like my stack here did :). I like to store in a cookie sheet with a lid.
- These would also make a great pumpkin chocolate chip cookie if you just swap out that frosting for chocolate chips in the batter instead.
